Arms Cache

May 5, 1986

SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC — Eleven automatic rifles. Four automatic carbines. Fifteen hand grenades. Thousands of rounds of ammunition. They were seized in the home of Luis Ney Tejeda Alvarez, a former police chief. He heads the National Civil Veterans Party, which is supporting former President Joaquin Balaguer in the presidential elections coming up May 16. Police and the military have seized a number of weapons in searches across the country aimed at heading off possible electoral violence.